Profile

Lara M. Krieger

City: Los Angeles

State Bar of California Admission Date: Feb. 14, 2002

Other Jurisdictions Admission Dates:

State

• New York: April 10, 1995
• Hawaii: March 11, 2003

Federal

• United States Supreme Court: May 12, 2008
• United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit: Feb. 29, 2000
• United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit: March 8, 2006
• United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit: Jan. 20, 2005
• United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit: April 3, 2006
• United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: June 27, 2006
• United States District Court for the Central District of California: July 1, 2005
• United States District Court for the Southern District of New York: Jan. 16, 1996
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York: Nov. 26, 1996

Education:

• Yale Law School, J.D. degree, 1994
• Columbia College, Columbia University, B.A. degree magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, 1991

Employment (Current and Past):

• Law Office of Lara M. Krieger; 2013 - present
• Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland LLP; 2008 - 2013
• Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP; 2005 - 2008
• Office of Staff Attorneys, Civil Research Unit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; 2001 – 2005; Acting Supervisor, Civil Research Unit, March 2004 - November 2004
• Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP; 1997 - 2000
• Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; 1994 - 1997

State Bar Activities:

• Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation, 2010 - present
• Vice Chair, 2012 - present
• Member, 2010 - 2012

Local and Specialty Bar Activities:

• California Women Lawyers, 2005 - present 
  Board of Governors, 2005 - 2012
  Chair, Amicus Committee
  Member, Judicial Committee
• Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, 2011 - present
  Board of Governors, 2011 - 2012
  Co-Chair, Amicus Briefs Committee
• Los Angeles County Bar Association, 2005 - present
  Member, Amicus Briefs Committee, 2010 - present
  Member, Appellate Courts Section, 2008 - present
  Member, Executive Committee of LACBA Delegation to the Conference of California Bar Associations, 2009 - 2011
  Member, LACBA Delegation to the Conference of California Bar Associations, 2008 - 2011

Publications:

• “Botox and E-Commerce: Take Two Aspirin and Call Your Lawyer in the Morning,” Los Angeles Daily Journal, July 20, 2011
• “The Bulletproof Attorney Fees Award,” Los Angeles Daily Journal, Dec. 1, 2010
• "Preclusion Rules Cause Conflict," Los Angeles Daily Journal, Dec. 3, 2009
• "Passing the Lawyering Test," Los Angeles Daily Journal, Dec. 3, 2008
• "Appellate Law: On Thin Ice," Los Angeles Daily Journal, Feb. 23, 2007
• "Changes to Federal Rules Clarify Procedural Questions for Appeals," Los Angeles Daily Journal, Aug. 24, 2005
• "Class-Action Statute Fails to Address Appellate Questions," Los Angeles Daily Journal, June 16, 2005

Other:

• Named by California Women Lawyers as a 2011-2012 Woman of Achievement
• Legal Research and Writing Instructor, Hastings College of the Law (University of California), 2001